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Once passed for publication, all new incident reports submitted via the FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system will be made available on this page.

In the meantime all the 2025/6 reports submitted via the Euro system, and passed for publication before it was shut down, can be found below. Reports submitted via the earlier BHPA online reporting system can also be found below.

This page will slowly include the remaining incident report submitted via the old Euro system.

Unfortunately, whilst all of these reports were successfully imported into the FIDA database by our German colleagues, they failed to include the status of the "publish" field which determines if a report can appear on our website.

As a result around 1,400 old Euro reports have to be reviewed and cross checked before they can be included here. This is a painfully slow process, and is likely to take some time to complete.

All incident reports submitted via the old Euro system, and approved for publication, are however available on our Incident Reports Archive page

Summaries of published incident reports are available for the following wing types:

• All Wing Types
• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
• Speedrider
• Speedflyer/Miniwing
• Powered PG
• Powered HG
• Other

You can also search the BHPA incident reports database by incident date, pilot, location, wing type, etc. For example, if you want to search for paraglider incidents at Hay Bluff, select paraglider from the drop down list, and enter Hay Bluff in the search box with the "or" option selected.

To search by incident date, please enter the day, month and year numerically as dd-mm-yyyy (eg. 03-12-2019).

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If known, total flights flown and flights flown in the past six months are displayed below, the latter being displayed in brackets.

There are 277 published incident report summaries for Flexwing Hang Gliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 05.05.2012 (F10608)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 39 years 1000 flights	Location Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes RS Launch Type: foot	Summary Immediately after takeoff the pilot noticed the glider handling to be wrong. VB was not working properly and glider had pronounced turn. Pilot managed to fly task and land safely. Found that VB rope was wrapped around cross tube.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 02.05.2012 (F10601)	Pilot male Age: 53	Location Hell's Mouth tow site, Cornwall, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing Condor Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary Student went off line under tow and failed to correct. Glider landed heavily in a turn.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 22.03.2012 (F10586)	Pilot male Age: 59	Location Teba, Algonodales, ES Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Aeros Target Launch Type: foot	Summary After a few soaring beats the pilot was seen to fly straight along the ridge until he collided with the ridge face.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries
Date 19.02.2012 (F10599)	Pilot male Age: 47 Rating: P Flying Experience: 31 years 1000 flights	Location Devil's Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Icaro Laminar Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot landed heavily in tailwind due to switching winds in landing field.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 11.02.2012 (F10578)	Pilot male Age: 44	Location El Cuchillo, Lanzarote, ES Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Elan Launch Type: foot	Summary Student entered a turn and continued turn until colliding with the hillside.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture)
Date 01.02.2012 (F10577)	Pilot male Age: 35 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years	Location Famara, Lanzarote, ES Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Amour Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot failed to make landing area and was caught in lee of sandbank. Glider dropped wing and pilot did not let go of 'A' frame.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 28.10.2011 (B4609)	Pilot Female Age: 16 Rating: Under training	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Falcon Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Student failed to correct course deviation to left and glider impacted at speed.	Injury Pilot: Fatal
Date 22.08.2011 (B4588)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: AP	Location St Andre, France Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Air Atos VR Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot began launch run in changeable conditions. 3 steps into launch wind switched to tailwind. Pilot crashed 15m down slope.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder
Date 30.07.2011 (B4580)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Under training	Location Muggery Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airborne Fun 190 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student was too high on uprights while on tethered flight. Caused glider to pitch down and pilot swung through as wheels toughed ground.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus
Date 02.07.2011 (B4567)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: Under training	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Falcon 3 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Student kept going off line to left on first solo aerotow. Was told to release which he did, but continued in left turn until hitting the ground.	Injury Pilot: Cuts to eye and mouth. knocked unconscious.

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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